This starts out like the older SPACE: 1999 ep MISSION OF THE DARIANS only it's not as good as that. We get a bunch of cliches: light aliens, colonists living on spaceships who worship the Doctor as a legendary figure from their past, a scary spaceship (ooooooahhhh), and the Doctor unconscious for half the story (seems to me whenever Lalla Ward does a Comp Chr, the Doctor is sidelined for most of the story, what's with that?), a sacrifice, a murder, a living AI...YAWN.

Added to that are some of the most annoying sound effects...I thought something was wrong as I listened to it in my car...with my car! Added to that Lalla's not my favorite voice book although one of my fav companions...her voice tends to get on my nerves from time to time.

I like:ROSEEND OF THE WORLDTHE UNQUIET DEADALIENS OF LONDONWORLD WAR THREEDALEKFATHER'S DAYTHE EMPTY CHILDTHE DOCTOR DANCESBOOMTOWNBAD WOLFPARTING OF THE WAYSTHE CHILDEN IN NEED REGENERATIONTHE CHRISTMAS INVASIONTOOTH AND CLAWSCHOOL REUNION (even if very very flawed in the Sarah dept)GIRL IN THE FIREPLACEIMPOSSIBLE PLANET/ THE SATAN PITRISE OF THE CYBERMEN/AGE OF STEEL THE IDIOT'S LANTERN (does drag a bit though)LOVE AND MONSTERSFEAR HERARMY OF GHOSTS DOOMSDAYSMITH AND JONESSHAKESPEARE CODEGRIDLOCKEVOLUTION OF THE DALEKS (despite flaws)LAZURUS EXPERIMENT (despite flaws)42 (despite many flaws)HUMAN NATURE/FAMILY OF BLOODBLINKUTOPIAFIRE OF POMPEIIPLANET OF THE OODSONTARAN STRTAGEMPOISON SKYUNICORN AND THE WASPSILENCE IN THE LIBRARY

I love the reference to Metebilis 3. In the 1990's spin-off Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans, for licencing reasons there could be no mention of the Doctor or Tardis at all, though they did slip in a reference to Metebelis 3 to please the fans.

Now we have Metebilis 3 being mentioned again in a spin-off, this time mentioned at the exact moment the Tardis can be heard materialising, signalling the Doctor's arrival into his very first ever appearance into a spin-off in the shows 46 year history. I think it's all fantastic!